Branka Ćurčić

Branka Ćurčić, born 1977, writer, art critic, BA in arts at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 2001, and MA Theory of Art and Media at the University of Art Belgrade. Presently, she is working as a program editor in the New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad <www.kuda.org>. She was the main coordinator of international World-Information.Org Exhibition, organized in 2003 in Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad and Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, and one of the editors of reader published for that occasion <http://world-information.org>.

Also, she was one of content developers and project coordinator for international conference Trans_European Picnic: The Art and Media of Accession organized on the May 1st 2004 in Novi Sad, as collaborative project of kuda.org and V2_Institute of Unstable Media from Rotterdam. <www.transeuropicnic.org>. In kuda.org she is the editor of publishing department of Center, untitled “kuda.read”. It is focusing on examining critical approaches towards new media culture, technologies, new cultural relations, contemporary artistic practice and the social realm. So far, there is more then 12 mostly bilingual books published by this departement of the Centre <http://www.kuda.org/kudaread>. She used to be one of the researches in the project “Transform” founded in 2005 by eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Vienna. <www.transform.eipcp.net>.

Since 2006, she is engaged in establishing and running Youth Center CK13 in Novi Sad – an an independent and educative project dedicated to stimulation and development of social engagement and political activism of young people above all, which implies high degree of self-organizing and self-sustainability of youth activities.